Making sense of being at 'high risk' of coronary heart disease within primary prevention

Current NHS policy advocates screening to identify individuals at ‘high risk’ of cardiovascular disease (CHD) in primary care. This paper utilizes the work of Radley to explore how ‘high risk’ of CHD patients make sense of their new risk status. Results are presented here from a nested qualitative s...

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Main Authors: Hannah Farrimond, Paula Saukko, Nadeem Qureshi, Philip H. Evans
Format: Default Article
Published: 2010
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Coronary heart disease
Risk
Risk perception
Intervention
Primary prevention
Life-course
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/14276
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